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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- Where Have All The Heroes Gone? (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Aug 18, 2007)
Desperately Seeking People of Substance. That should be the strapline of India at 60.
- Towards A Clean Public Life (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 17, 2007)
It is a sure bet that wherever public meetings under this title are held, the speakers will dwell in sepulchral tones on the grave crisis of character confronting the country.
- India Marks 60th Anniversary: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh marked the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule by urging the country to work harder to free itself from the shackles of poverty, ignorance and disease.
- Memorable Scenes In Madras (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 16, 2007)
THE City celebrated ‘Independence Day’ with unprecedented enthusiasm. From early morning, citizens came out in their tens of thousands in the brilliantly decorated thoroughfares of the City with the joy of a new life radiating in their faces.
- India Celebrates Independence Day (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told Indians celebrating 60 years of independence from Britain that "the best is yet to come".
- Manmohan Presents Report Card, Silent On Indo-Us Nuclear Deal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday virtually presented the report card to the nation on his three-years in office, highlighting his achievements and outlining his key initiatives in agriculture, education and social sectors . . . . .
- Pm For An Education Revolution, Says End To Poverty Is In Reach (Asian Age, Venkat Parsa, Aug 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asserted that the goal of poverty-elimination was no longer a mere slogan but was well within reach.
- India Celebrates Turning 60 (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has urged for a war on poverty at a ceremony to mark 60 years of independence from British rule.
- The Making Of A Miracle (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
One early morning in Bangalore - at about six, before the traffic thickened and made the timing of any cross-town journey the subject of doubting speculation - an enterprising young man called Arun Pai took me in his car to the edge of the Karnataka Golf
- The Big Question: Sixty Years After Partition, Why Is India Doing So Much Better Than Pakistan? (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
Pakistan celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain today (14 August) while India marks the occasion precisely 24 hours later.
- Profiling Pakistan At 60 (Dawn, Shahid M. Amin, Aug 14, 2007)
THE achievement of Pakistan was something of a miracle. The demand for a separate Muslim homeland was opposed tooth and nail by the Hindu majority, which had India’s best organised party, the Congress, led by the formidable Mahatma Gandhi, and. . . . .
- Oratory Club Of India (OutLook, Jamal Ahmed Khan, Aug 14, 2007)
Both text and context mark out great speeches.
- Where The Head Is Held High. Really? (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Aug 13, 2007)
This week, the media will be brimming over with the nostalgia and celebratory mood that attends the 60th birthday of Independent India.
- Gandhi, Our Father (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 11, 2007)
Last evening when I was watching Gandhi, My father, I was shocked to listen to noisy boos whenever the name or the character Mahatma Gandhi appeared on the scene.
- Sixty Bitter Years After Partition (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
As the 60th anniversary of Indian Partition approaches, the BBC's Andrew Whitehead looks back at how and why independence from Britain meant the creation of two separate countries, India and Pakistan.
- Pm Releases Book On Gandhi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the message of Mahatma Gandhi was not confined to his lifetime or to a region but it was universal and all encompassing.
- Truant Teachers Blamed For Empty Classrooms (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
More than 32,000 schools in India — about 3 per cent of the country’s total — do not have a single student, according to a government report.
- Myanmar: Rhetoric And Reality Of Indian Democracy (Hindu, MUKUL SHARMA, Aug 09, 2007)
Union of Myanmar (Burma). Head of State: General Than Shwe. Head of Government: General Soe Win. More than three decades of brutal military rule.
- Tricolour On Public Buildings On August 15 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
On Friday, August 15, the tricolour flag will be hoisted on all Government and public buildings in the Indian Dominion, it is learnt. An “Ad Hoc Committee” appointed by the President of the Constituent Assembly to look into the question. . .
- Wal-Mart May Cause Culture Clash (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, announced its entry into India yesterday through a cash-and-carry joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, the industrial group that owns the country’s largest mobile phone network.
- Disasters Of Distorted Urban Development (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Aug 08, 2007)
The western model of development by means of aggressive industrialisation and insane consumerism has invaded urban India, and converted innocent, elegant spaces into technologically driven factories and slews of concrete skyscrapers.
- Metro: No Parking On M G Road (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
Parking on M G Road would not be allowed from the Cauvery Emporium junction to Mayo Hall as the BMRC would soon be occupying 9.75 metres bang in the middle of the road to begin construction in phase two of the Namma Metro project...
- Gandhiji Abandons Prayer Meeting (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2007)
Calcutta, August 13, 1947: Mahatma Gandhi had to abandon his usual evening prayer today. A hostile demonstration was staged by a mob of about a thousand strong in front of his new residence in Beliaghata where he shifted this afternoon from Sodepur.
- Singh Set To Skip Un Ritual (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will in all probability not attend the UN General Assembly scheduled to meet next month in New York.
- A Way Forward For Peace (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Aug 07, 2007)
History helps when it is left behind — this is what Krishna Kumar marks out as the central theme of his book, Battle for Peace, intended as a way forward for peace between India and Pakistan.
- A Forgotten Hero Of Independence (Statesman, DIPANKAR BOSE, Aug 07, 2007)
Sixty years of independent India has changed the lives of millions but for Mr Somar Sundi, (80), it’s a hard life. Now a mere vegetable vendor-cum-rickshaw puller he is not remembered for the bullet injuries he received during the Quit India movement.
- Wal-Mart May Cause Culture Clash (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, announced its entry into India yesterday through a cash-and-carry joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, the industrial group that owns the country’s largest mobile. . .
- After The Indian Century (Telegraph, SURENDRA MUNSHI, Aug 06, 2007)
Taking a broad view of how humanity had performed in the 20th century, I wrote in this paper some years ago that there are reasons for looking at the past century with despair.
- Wisdom Of The Sages~ii (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2007)
The overall scene that has emerged after 35 years of the Stockholm conference, at the world as well as the national stage, should make us ask a few pertinent questions.
- Lessons From Turkish Elections (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 04, 2007)
I HAVE never been to Turkey. Although the country is seen as part of the greater Middle East by its western neighbours, it’s a little out of the way for most of us in the region.
- Cross Out The Poverty Line (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 03, 2007)
India lacks an operative socio-economic vision. The Poverty Line which was developed by a task force that I had chaired in the late seventies has recently been the subject of critiques that were not always based on a reading of the task force’s report.
- Cleric For All Seasons (Indian Express, RAJEEV P I, Aug 03, 2007)
A decade and a half ago, before the first of his many brushes with the law for his communally charged speeches after the Babri Masjid fell, Abdul Nasser Mahdani was little more than a local cleric in Kollam with a particularly fiery tongue . . . .
- Munnabhai Comes Face To Face With Making Of Mahatma (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2007)
Munnabhai would do well to know that the first time Mahatma Gandhi was sent to Yerawada jail in 1922, he, too, was
- Actor Dutt Shifted To Yerwada Jail In Pune (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2007)
Sanjay Dutt was shifted from Arthur Road Jail to Yerawada Central Prison in Pune on Friday evening.
- Heart Strings And Purse Strings (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2007)
Only the other day we published the message of Mahatma Gandhi about the duty of the Press and we have done our best. The recent orders of the government mean nothing but that we shall be glorified issues of the Gazette of India...
- Affairs Of Transition (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2007)
Pamela Mountbatten, the author of India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power, is the surviving daughter of the man chosen to lead India into Independence — dividing the country into two in the process.
- Lethal Firings In Free India (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 30, 2007)
It is strange and tragic that in the year of celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of India’s Independence, instances of firings by police in which large numbers of protesters and demostrators are killed should keep occurring as a familiar staple of . . . .
- Two Missions For The 60th Anniversary (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, Jul 28, 2007)
Much remains to be done to make India hunger-free and to achieve a rural knowledge revolution.
- Servant Of The People (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2007)
She has begun well. Pratibha Patil has struck the right note by saying that she is the Indian republic's "first servant".
- Mahatma Gandhi's Letter Back Home (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2007)
The manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi written a few days before his death, which nearly went up for auction at Christie’s before being withdrawn, reached Delhi last week.
- India Paid Rs 15 Lakh To Bring Home The Mahatma Letter (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2007)
A letter written by Mahatma Gandhi just 19 days before his death has been brought back to the country from London after being bought by the government for about 18,000 pounds (Rs 15 lakh), a source said.
- Pratibha Patil Sworn In President (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2007)
Pratibha Devisingh Patil became the first woman President of the country when she was administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan in the Central Hall of Parliament at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
- Pratibha Sworn In As India's President (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2007)
A milestone was reached in India's history on Wednesday with Pratibha Patil being sworn in as the first woman President at a ceremony in Parliament.
- Dog-Control Is Vital (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 25, 2007)
The recommendation of the Commissioner of Brihan Mumbai to kill stray dogs as a long-term solution has boosted the spirits of associations trying to keep cities stray-dog-free..
- Gone With The Waves (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2007)
DANTI in Valsad district of Gujarat is being invaded. More than half the residents of this sleepy fishing village have fled already. It is not guns and troops that they are running away from.
- Christopher Fails To Discover India (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2007)
Born in Sydney and educated at the University of Canberra, this former South Asia and Vietnam correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Christopher Kremmer, is an archetypal journalist who prefers to think from his mind without . . . .
- Lord Mountbatten Thought Partition Was ‘Unreal’, ‘Unworkable’ (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 21, 2007)
India's last viceroy Lord Mountbatten thought the country's partition was “completely unreal, crazy and unworkable” but advanced it by nine months because he “was desperate that Indians should take on government”, says his daughter.
- Wooing The New Indian Tourist Out Of London (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 21, 2007)
The ‘India Now’ festival in London is a ploy to get the nouveau-richeIndian tourist into Britain somehow.
- Young, Male And Deadly (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Jul 21, 2007)
The explanation made sense. The protesters mostly came from the western, and older, parts of the city, which are Kannada-speaking, and which have escaped the boom that Bangalore has been experiencing for some years now.
- Tales From A Forgotten World (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jul 21, 2007)
It is not surprising that many of our top writers of English fiction prefer to live abroad rather than in their own homeland.
- Gandhiji, Jinnah, And Mountbatten In 1947 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 20, 2007)
In an interview to Karan Thapar for CNN-IBN’s ‘Devil’s Advocate,’ Lady Pamela Hicks, Earl Mountbatten’s youngest daughter, offers her reminiscences of Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammad Ali Jinnah and her father’s contrasting interactions with them.
- Woman Power Tips, Sa To Sonia (Telegraph, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 19, 2007)
Stirred by South Africa’s success in introducing women to top leadership positions, Sonia Gandhi now wants first-hand lessons from none other than the African National Congress when she visits that country in August.
- On Poll Eve, Congress Smells Victory (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2007)
Confident of Pratibha Patil's victory, Congress president Sonia Gandhi turned poll instructor on Wednesday, meeting party MPs in batches over the day and teaching them how to mark the ballot paper.
- Shekhawat's Gift (Pioneer, Tarlochan Singh, Jul 19, 2007)
He ensured dignity for the poor through his innovative Antyodaya scheme, says Tarlochan Singh.
- A New Tenant For Rashtrapati Bhavan (Asian Age, K. Natwar Singh, Jul 19, 2007)
In four days India will have a new Rashtrapati. At least four past Presidents have been individuals possessing integrity of mind and spirit, delicacy of character, dignity of office, and embodying our national ideals and India’s genius.
- Leaders Of Quality Are Missing (Asian Age, J.S. Rajput, Jul 19, 2007)
Liberty and equality are universally acknowledged as the two major boons of democracy, which are to be shared by every single human being.
- A New Tenant For Rashtrapati Bhavan (Asian Age, K. Natwar Singh, Jul 17, 2007)
In four days India will have a new Rashtrapati. At least four past Presidents have been individuals possessing integrity of mind and spirit, delicacy of character, dignity of office, and embodying our national ideals and India’s genius.
- Freedom Fighter Still Awaits Pension (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2007)
Santosh Kumar Surendranath Saha, as he likes to be called, is one of Gujarat's and the country's few genuine freedom fighters who despite their "celebrated" status today are forced to beg for assistance.
- Fake Notes In Circulation (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jul 16, 2007)
Delhi Police claims to have busted a major ISI network on June 25, which was reportedly being used to push fake currency into our country.
- Threats To Humankind: Conviction Vs Convention (Deccan Herald, Nandana Reddy, Jul 16, 2007)
At a time when our nation is facing threats on several fronts, only those who break with the tradition and think differently can save it.
- Upholding Dangerous Ideas (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2007)
In the early 1980s, as a lecturer at the largest Indian school in Dubai, I saw within our school premises a five-foot statue of Mahatma Gandhi installed in the playground.
- Mahatma’S Letters Auctioned (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2007)
Within 10 days of India acquiring a rare manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi before it was to be auctioned, handwritten drafts of a series of articles and autographed letters of the father of the nation went under the hammer here.
- Gandhi Would Have Protested (Pioneer, RN Chawla, Jul 14, 2007)
Ever since the nomination of Ms Pratibha Patil as UPA's presidential candidate, media has been putting out stories leveling serious corruption charges against her.
- Yashwant Sinha On He Bjp (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2007)
The destruction of the Babari Masjid and the crisis in which it has plunged the nation is the sordid finale of the vote bank politics which has come to afflict democracy in this country... . Politics based on communal vote banks is not new to this . . .
- Pratibha Patil Confident Of Victory (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2007)
UPA-Left presidential candidate Pratibha Patil on Tuesday expressed confidence about her victory despite the opposition attempts to tarnish her image.
- Congress, Bjp Devalue Office Of President (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 11, 2007)
Mudslinging surrounding the highest office of the country is, no doubt, unfortunate. But it is more than that. It is in bad taste, something which should never be done.
- Legislature Pays Tribute To Chandra Shekhar (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2007)
Describing Chandra Shekhar as the rarest of rare politician, many legislators called for adapting the best parliamentary traditions followed by late leader.
- Choosing A President: What The Mahatma Said (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 10, 2007)
Mahatma Gandhi is acclaimed as the Father of the Nation, but his vision and values are violated by the States and the Union. Vicious alternatives are practised with corrupt verve by many political parties — with only rare exceptions.
- Congress, Bjp Devalue Office Of President (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 09, 2007)
Mudslinging surrounding the highest office of the country is, no doubt, unfortunate. But it is more than that. It is in bad taste, something which should never be done.
- State Funeral For Chandra Shekhar (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 09, 2007)
The union cabinet on Sunday condoled the death of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar who would be cremated with full state honours near Rajghat on Monday.
- St. Stephen’S: Education And Social Conscience (Hindu, Valson Thampu , Jul 09, 2007)
Only 7 per cent of India’s children in the relevant age group can afford the luxury of higher education of any sort. The discourse on 9 per cent GDP growth needs to be humanised and humbled with this corollary: who benefits from it and what needs . ..
- Gandhi’S Letter (Telegraph, Shahid Amin, Jul 09, 2007)
The successful exertion by the government of India to stymie the auction in London of a letter written by Mahatma Gandhi has created quite a stir.
- Inclusive Vs. Intrusive Development (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 09, 2007)
This is 204th in the Vision 2020 series. The previous article was published on June 25.All-round progress occurs when there are no walls, when amenities are shared equitably between wealth creators and their underprivileged neighbours.
- Has The Farmer Become A Myth? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 09, 2007)
Sir, ~ This is with reference to the views of Prof MS Swaminathan expressed in the interview “Agriculture should not be neglected” (30 June). In our country, where 65 per cent of the population depend on agriculture for livelihood, the farmer seems . . .
- Congress: Where Was Shekhawat During Freedom Struggle? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2007)
The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday sought to raise questions on the role of Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat during the freedom struggle and his joining the British police when the Quit India movement had begun.
- Fresh Charge Against Pratibha Patil (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2007)
The beleaguered UPA-Left presidential candidate, Mrs Pratibha Patil, whose expected victory in the Rashtrapati Bhavan race is now barely an issue, is struck by a fresh allegation ~ her 1996 decision to allocate an amount from her then MPLADS funds . ..
- 'Shekhawat On British Payroll In 1942' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2007)
Badly bruised by a fierce BJP assault in the early rounds of the presidential campaign, Congress on Friday launched a counter-attack by questioning opposition candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat’s decision to join the police force of the British Raj . . . .
- Why Tagore? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2007)
“Why Tagore?”, asked a brilliant young mathematician of me recently. He was referring to an article of mine which had singled out Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar as the ‘builders’ of modern India.
- 2 Gandhis, Mushirul In Race (Asian Age, Venkatesh Kesari , Jul 06, 2007)
Jamia Millia Islamia vice-chancellor and Islamic scholar Mushirul Hasan, West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Mr Rajmohan Gandhi are emerging as frontrunners for the vice-presidential post.
- Lal Masjid Blues (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 06, 2007)
The tussle in Pakistan between students and President Musharraf’s troops has received extensive coverage. National Herald’s Qaumi Awaz, in an editorial on July 3, has criticised the occupants of the mosque for not responding to Musharraf’s pleas.
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